TABLE 3.

Heritability estimates of metabolic syndrome traits and height

	Height	BMI	Waist	WHR	TC	HDL	LDL	TG	Insulin	Glucose	SBP	DBP
NSs	24,904	27,021	8,965	8,962	7,468	7,466	7,453	7,469	7,510	7,563	2,792	2,792
VP	42.89	14.14	119.58	0.0051	0.93	0.13	0.77	21.25	0.50	0.25	161.21	97.48
h22	0.81	0.41	0.39	0.31	0.51	0.40	0.51	0.33	0.31	0.38	0.37	0.53
d22	0.09	0.37	0.37	0.18	0.16	0.27	0.18	0.25	0.16	0.15	0.24	0.08
H22	0.90	0.78	0.76	0.49	0.67	0.67	0.69	0.59	0.47	0.53	0.60	0.61
SE	0.01	0.02	0.03	0.06	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.08	0.09

All trait values were corrected for age and sex by linear regression, and overall heritability estimates were obtained based on the entire sample, assuming no differences in heritability between sexes or age groups. d², proportion of variation due to nonadditive genetic effects (V_D / V_P); h², narrow-sense heritability (V_A / V_P); H², broad-sense heritability [(V_A + V_D) / V_P]; NSs, total number of subjects included in the analysis; SE, robust standard error of the broad-sense heritability estimate from poly; TC, total cholesterol, TG, triglyceride; V_p, total phenotypic variance after taking out age and sex effects.